Std Edit

Alignment

Properties

Std Edit Menu

Std Edit
Menu location
Edit → Toggle Edit mode
Workbenches
All
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
Std UserEditMode

Description

The Std Edit command activates or deactivates an object's edit mode.

Usage

1. If no object is in edit mode: select a single object.
2. Select the Edit → Toggle Edit mode option from the menu.
3. Either the default edit mode of the selected object is activated or the existing edit mode deactivated.

Notes

• Some tools will be disabled (greyed-out) in the user interface while an object's edit mode is active.
• Not all object types have an edit mode.
• The functionality available in edit mode depends on the object type.
• An object's edit mode can also be activated by double-clicking it in the Tree view. In that case the edit mode that is used can be defined with the Std UserEditMode command.

Scripting

See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

To activate an object's edit mode use the setEdit method of the document object. This method is not available if FreeCAD is in console mode.

import FreeCADGui

FreeCADGui.ActiveDocument.setEdit("myObjectName",0)

The second argument is the EditMode. The following options are available:

0 = Default
1 = Transform
2 = Cutting
3 = Color

To deactivate an object's edit mode use the resetEdit method of the document object.

import FreeCADGui

FreeCADGui.ActiveDocument.resetEdit()

Alignment

Properties

Std Edit Menu

Std Base

• File: New, Open, Open Recent, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Document information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Exit

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• Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Properties, Edit mode, Preferences

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• View:
  • Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Persistent section cut, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Material, Appearance, Random color, Color per face, Toggle transparency, Workbench, Status bar
  • Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Align to selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Store working view, Recall working view
  • Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
  • Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
  • Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
  • Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
  • Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
  • Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability
  • Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Individual views, Structure, Help, Lock toolbars
  • Panels: Tree view, Property view, Model, Selection view, Python console, Report view, Tasks, DAG view
  • Dock window overlay: Toggle overlay for all, Toggle transparent for all, Toggle overlay, Toggle transparent, Bypass mouse events in docked overlay windows, Toggle left, Toggle right, Toggle top, Toggle bottom
  • Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
  • Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection back, Selection forward

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• Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Export dependency graph, Document utility, Add text document, View turntable, Units converter, Customize, Addon manager, Measure

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• Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint

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• Windows: Next, Previous, Tile, Cascade, Windows

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• Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This, Start

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• Additional:
  • Miscellaneous: Create part, Create group, Create a variable set, Make link group, Select all instances, Toggle freeze
  • Create datums: Create coordinate system, Create datum plane, Create datum line, Create datum point
  • Link tools: Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links
  • Expression actions: Copy selected, Copy active document, Copy all documents, Paste
  • Selection filter: Vertex selection, Edge selection, Face selection, All selection filters cleared

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub